| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: grass outside the Trees, if the Children of the Night would leave
Magic Knives for our people to take away. They were pleased.
Their Priestess said, "For whose sake have you come?" I
answered, "The sheep are the people. If The Beast kills our sheep,
our people die. So I come for a Magic Knife to kill The Beast."
'She said, "We do not know if our God will let us trade with the
people of the Naked Chalk. Wait till we have asked."
'When they came back from the Question-place (their Gods are
our Gods), their Priestess said, "The God needs a proof that your
words are true." I said, "What is the proof?" She said, "The God
says that if you have come for the sake of your people you will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Very well, Mr. Spoker," said the Captain; "but that is no reason
for going about half-shaved. Exercise your mind a moment, Mr.
Spoker, and you will see that to the philosophic eye there is
nothing new in our position: the ship (if she is to go down at all)
may be said to have been going down since she was launched."
"She is settling fast," said the first lieutenant, as he returned
from shaving.
"Fast, Mr. Spoker?" asked the Captain. "The expression is a
strange one, for time (if you will think of it) is only relative."
"Sir," said the lieutenant, "I think it is scarcely worth while to
embark in such a discussion when we shall all be in Davy Jones's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
O what sweet company!
But to go to school in a summer morn, -
O it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day
In sighing and dismay.
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
